Dr. Shankar Sastry did his B.Tech at IIT Bombay where he received the President of India medal. He did his M.S. EECS in 1979, M.A. Mathematics in 1980, and Ph.D EECS at University of California, in 1981.nnnDr. Sastry was Assistant Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, before joining the University of California, Berkeley, where presently he is Director ERL and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Dr. Sastry has had the opportunity of working as Professore A Contratto at Universita di Pisa, Gordan Mckay Professor at Harvard University and visiting Vinton Hayes Professor at MIT.nnnHis other professional experience includes the position of Directeur Recherche, Center Nationale Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Toulouse, France, Summer 1991.